This is the second book in Crecy Publishing’s new Railways Remembered series to draw on the work of railway photographer and career railwayman Blake Paterson. In his photographs he sought innovative angles, and unlike many photographers of the era made a particular point of including people, particularly railway staff, in his photos.
This photographic journey starts in Kent in the east of the region and travels westwards, finishing with the former Southern Railway lines in North Devon and North Cornwall. The railways of the Isle of Wight are also featured.
The photographs have been broadly organised according to the territories of the pre-grouping companies absorbed by the Southern Railway, starting with the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR), then the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LBSCR), and finally the London South Western Railway (LSWR). A variety of steam and diesel-hauled trains, DMUs and EMUs are depicted. Most of the photographs are not believed to have previously been published.
Hardback. Approximately 160 colour photographs. 160 pages.